{"id":199634,"date":"2019-12-22T10:58:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-22T10:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199634"},"modified":"2019-12-24T07:23:03","modified_gmt":"2019-12-24T07:23:03","slug":"swedish-justice-ministry-manipulated-crime-statistics-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199634","title":{"rendered":"Swedish justice ministry manipulated crime statistics \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"

RT \u2013 Dec 21, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Burnt out police car in Malm\u00f6, Sweden, 2016. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

Sweden\u2019s Ministry of Justice pressured the country\u2019s Crime Prevention Council to hide, manipulate, or ignore potentially embarrassing crime statistics, a university study has found.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sweden\u2019s Crime Prevention Council (Br\u00e5) has a difficult task. In a country where media outlets omit police-circulated descriptions of suspects\u2019 ethnicity, and the government actively downplays<\/a> the surge in gun crime and bombings in its immigrant ghettoes, Br\u00e5 is charged with compiling factual, accurate crime statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a study<\/a><\/strong><\/span> published by Link\u00f6ping University this week, the government intervenes here too to downplay \u201cpolitically sensitive\u201d<\/em> data.<\/span><\/p>\n

Employees told the university researchers that their managers \u2013 acting on orders from the country\u2019s Justice Ministry \u2013 instructed them to manipulate results on \u201chot potato\u201d<\/em> issues. Presumably, these results were ones that could embarrass the government, and likely dealt with issues of race or immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n

One interviewee stated that \u201cmethodological deficiencies\u201d<\/em> was the reason given for the change.<\/span><\/p>\n

Br\u00e5\u2019s own statistics show an upsurge<\/strong><\/span><\/a> in lethal violence since 2014, particularly among criminals and in disadvantaged and immigrant neighborhoods. They also show a sharp rise<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>in sexual violence, assaults, threats and robbery since 2015, when the country welcomed more than 160,000 refugees and migrants \u2013 more per capita than any other European country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet the government would rather these statistics remained hidden. One Br\u00e5 employee compiling a report on violent crime remarked that the government delayed its publication until after last year\u2019s election, due to its \u201cpolitically sensitive results.\u201d<\/em> The report in question was also seen as humiliating, as it directly contradicted an earlier report that used a different method to conclude that violent crime was decreasing.<\/span><\/p>\n

When it was eventually published, the report was allegedly relegated to Br\u00e5\u2019s website, and was not printed.<\/span><\/p>\n

Many interviewees feel that rather the organization\u2019s problems stem from its organization under the Ministry of Justice. Rather than working independently to advise policymakers, they feel that they are working to advance their agendas instead.<\/span><\/p>\n

With gang crime and grenade attacks ongoing in Swedish cities, Justice Minister Morgan Johansson was the subject of a no-confidence vote called by the right-wing Sweden Democrats party last month. Johansson survived the motion, but unfiltered crime statistics have fueled Sweden\u2019s opposition. If the Link\u00f6ping University report is to be taken at face value, his ministry has every reason to stifle crime statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Against this background, a number of Swedish industry leaders have sounded the alarm. Volvo CEO Hakan Samuelsson said in July that his company is struggling to attract foreign experts due to crime concerns, while Scania CEO Leif \u00d6stling warned<\/a> in October that Sweden has \u201ctaken in far too many people from outside,\u201d<\/em> and predicted \u201cinternal wars\u201d<\/em> unless the government clamps down on immigration.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Sweden Democrats, who push a tough-on-crime, anti-immigration platform, have reached their highest ever level of public support. According to a Statistics Sweden poll<\/strong><\/span><\/a> published this month, the party scored 22.6 percent, making them the country\u2019s second biggest party.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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